The skin-ego

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I DISCOVERY

ch. One Epistemological preliminaries

Some general principles

The tactile and cutaneous universe

ch. Two Four sets of data

Ethological data

Data from the theory of groups

Data from projective testing

Dermatological data

ch. Three The notion of a Skin-ego

Mouth-breast and skin-breast

The idea of a Skin-ego

The phantasy of a common skin and its narcissistic and masochistic variants

ch. Four The Greek myth of Marsyas

The socio-cultural framework

The first part of the myth

The second part: the eight mythemes

ch. Five The psychogenesis of the Skin-ego

The double feedback in the mother

child dyadic system

Differences between cognitive and psychoanalytic points of view

Special features of the Skin-ego as an interface

Two clinical examples

pt. II STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, OVERCOMING

ch. Six Two precursors of the theory of the Skin-ego: Freud and Federn Note continued: Freud and the topographical structure of the ego

The speech apparatus

The psychical apparatus

The contact-barriers

The Ego as interface

Refinements to the topographical model of the psychical apparatus

Federn: Ego-feelings and feelings of fluctuation in Ego boundaries

Ego feelings

The feeling of the Ego borders

Feelings of fluctuation in Ego boundaries

The repression of Ego states

ch. Seven The functions of the Skin-ego

The eight functions of the Skin-ego

Attacks against the Skin-ego

Other functions

A case of perverse masochism

Wet wrappings

Three observations

ch. Eight Disturbances of basic sensori-motor distinctions

On the confusion of respiratory fullness and emptiness

ch. Nine Impairments of the structure of the Skin-ego in narcissistic personalities and borderline cases

The structural difference between narcissistic personalities and borderline cases Note continued: A literary example of a narcissistic personality

The phantasy of the double wall

Disturbances of belief and borderline states

ch. Ten The double taboo on touching, the condition for overcoming the Skin-ego

A taboo on touching implied in Freud's work

Christ's explicit prohibition

Touch: three problematics

The prohibitions and their four dualities

From the Skin-ego to the thinking ego

Access to intersensoriality and the creation of a common sense

pt. III PRINCIPAL CONFIGURATIONS

ch. Eleven The wrapping of sound

Hearing and phonation in infants

Freud's thinking on sound

Semiophony

The mirror of sound

ch. Twelve The thermal wrapping

The wrapping of warmth

The wrapping of cold

ch. Thirteen The olfactory wrapping

The secretion of aggression through the pores of the skin

ch. Fourteen Confusion of qualities of taste Note continued: The love of bitterness and confusion between the digestive and respiratory tracts

ch. Fifteen The second muscular skin

Esther Bick's discovery

Two short stories by Robert Sheckley

ch. Sixteen The wrapping of suffering

Psychoanalysis and pain

Cases of third-degree bums

From the body in abeyance to the body of suffering

ch. Seventeen The film of dreams

Dream and its film

Freud's theory of dreams revisited

The wrapping of excitation, the hysterical basis of all neuroses

The neurophysiology of sleep and the diversity of dream material

ch. Eighteen Summaries and further observations

Origins of the notions of psychical wrapping and psychical skin

Some points about the theory of psychical wrappings (their constitution, development, and changes of form)

Problems of the psychical wrappings

The construction of the psychical wrapping

Appendix Chapter Eighteen from 1985 edition

Further observations Note continued: Mixed configurations

The psychical wrappings of autism

From skin to thought

Finally

Table Of Case Studies

Author's note